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News, commentary and analysis on prisons: government proposals with the aim of stemming overcrowding and recidivism; inmate living conditions and changing demographics; sentencing issues.
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MI-CA: GEO Group to house California prisoners in Baldwin. Private prison will operate without state oversight

Posted on November 10, 2010
"?[Private prisons] are paying staff 8 dollars an hour and you have total amateurs dealing with serious offenders,? said FrankSmith. ?It?s not a career, its job you have between Wendy?s and McDonalds.? GEO Group to house California inmates in Baldwin...

PA: Township superivsors face hostile crowds opposing proposed GEO "detention" center

Posted on November 09, 2010
Upper Mount Bethel Township supervisors decline to discuss proposed federal detention center November 09, 2010 Tom Shortell | The Express-Times Tom Shortell Township supervisors faced a hostile, overflow crowd Monday night as they explained they couldn?t discuss a proposed federal...

MI: Education and Business coalition say cut prison spending

Posted on November 09, 2010
Reform Corrections spending Rob Fowler and Michael Boulus November 9, 2010 Detroit News As representatives from a diverse group of business and education organizations, we call on the new governor to tackle one of the largest contributors to the state's...

CA: State budget held hostage by prison costs

Posted on November 09, 2010
State budget held hostage by prison costs By Jim Lindburg Special to The Bee Published Tuesday, Nov. 09, 2010 The budget passed by the Legislature last month revealed the toxic relationship between California's financial crisis and California's prison crisis...

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Coalition of Human Rights, Criminal Justice Organizations Announces Opposition to Obama Nominee With Extensive Ties to Private Prisons to Head U.S. Marshals Servic

Posted on November 09, 2010
Coalition of Human Rights, Criminal Justice Organizations Announces Opposition to Obama Nominee November 9, 2010 ? Private Corrections Working Group & Prison Legal News Washington, DC ? A coalition of human rights and criminal justice organizations today announced their opposition...

MA: Ban the Box Goes Into Effect on November 4, 2010

Posted on November 08, 2010
Ban the Box Goes Into Effect After years of dedicated grassroots organizing, BWA and CORI Coalition partners pass CORI reform, and begin to see the products of our hard labor. Starting November 4th, "Ban the Box" statewide is now in...

MA: New Law for Parole Eligibility Takes Effect on Nov. 4, 2010

Posted on November 08, 2010
A brighter future: New parole eligibility law takes effect by: Barb Dougan Thu Nov 04, 2010 at 09:33:59 AM EDT www.BlueMassGroup.com While November 2 determined the fate of Massachusetts' candidates for public office, November 4 signals a much quieter but...

California intends to bring up to 3,256 prisoners to CCA prisons in Colorado and Minnesota in 2012

Posted on November 07, 2010
Private prison firm eyes Calif. contract Crowley County pact also could lead to Walsenburg reopening in 2012. November 6, 2010 By ANTHONY A. MESTAS Pueblo Chieftan OLNEY SPRINGS ? California intends to bring up to 3,256 inmates to private prisons...

OR: Minimum security prison for women closes---but of course not completely

Posted on November 06, 2010
"But plans are for the facility to remain closed through the 2011-13 biennium. Gower did say, however, that the facility would open to house women if and when it would reopen. " Minimum security prison closes By Salem Weekly Editors...

IL: Report written by Malcolm Young: Most news stories on early release of prisoners were false. Contrary to media reports, prisoners weren't released earlier than normal.

Posted on November 06, 2010
Report: Early prisoner release not a scandal Prisoners weren?t released earlier than normal Illinois times November 4,2010 By Patrick Yeagle - Illinois? early prisoner release controversy was no scandal, according to a recently-released report from Northwestern University School of Law,...

CA to send 2,600 prisoners to once empty GEO prison in Baldwin MI

Posted on November 06, 2010
California to send more inmates to other states Thursday, November 4, 2010 November 5, 2010 Sacramento, Calif. (AP) -- California is set to send another 5,000 inmates to private prisons to reduce crowding in state-run lockups. The nation's largest state...

CA: Ex-BART officer gets 2 years for killing unarmed Oscar Grant!

Posted on November 06, 2010
Ex-BART officer Mehserle sentenced to two years in prison for fatal shooting of unarmed man [updated] November 5, 2010 | 1:05 pm Johannes Mehserle, right, shown Jan. 14, 2009 in the East Fork Justice Court in Minden, Nev. Credit: Associated...

AZ: Private Prisons cost taxpayers $7.76 a day more per prisoner than state prisons

Posted on November 05, 2010
Audit: Private Prisons Cost Slightly More ---(I would say this is quite an understatement) Sarah Buduson Reporter, KPHO.com November 3, 2010 PHOENIX -- A state audit of the Arizona Department of Corrections found private prisons cost taxpayers more money per...

NY: A Fair Chance for Families Separated by Prison

Posted on November 05, 2010
A Fair Chance for Families Separated by Prison by Tamar Kraft-Stolar | June 30, 2010 Co-authored by Sam Streed On June 15, incarcerated parents and their children received long sought-after and critical support in their efforts to maintain ties to...

A death at William George Agency: " New York's juvie justice system is a crying shame: Keep troubled youngsters downstate for care" by Errol Louis

Posted on November 05, 2010
New York's juvie justice system is a crying shame: Keep troubled youngsters downstate for care By Errol Louis, NY Daily News Thursday, October 21st 2010 We don't yet know exactly how 20-year-old Alexis Cirino-Rodriguez died on Oct. 13 inside the...

?The Use of Criminal History Records in College Admissions Reconsidered? a new study by the Center for Community Alternatives

Posted on November 04, 2010
?The Use of Criminal History Records in College Admissions Reconsidered? a new study by the Center for Community Alternatives, shows that a majority of colleges and universities now collect criminal history information as part of the college admissions procedures...

CA: Who?s going back to prison (again and again)

Posted on November 04, 2010
Who?s going back to prison (again and again) November 2, 2010 The Informant by Bernice Yeung San Francisco has one of the highest recidivism rates in the state?some 78.3 percent go back to prison within three years of release?according to...

Baltimore youth say no to $104 million youth prison

Posted on November 04, 2010
Baltimore youth say no to $104 million youth prison by: Jordan Farrar November 3 2010 People's World http://peoplesworld.org/baltimore-youth-say-no-to-104-million-youth-prison/ "Break that lock, break that lock!" cried hundreds of protesters at a Halloween rally on Monument Street in Baltimore, Md...

AZ: AZ: $72 million county jail to open with 688 "beds"

Posted on November 02, 2010
"The new jail will have space for 688 beds to begin with, including an incomplete pod that would allow expansion t o 850 beds. Construction of that section, if needed, would take about six months. The jail also could be...

PA: Where's the outrage over prison costs?

Posted on November 02, 2010
Where's the outrage over prison costs? Sunday, October 31, 2010 Patriot-News Op-Ed Patriot-News Op-Ed By Eric Epstein An old and misguided political adage claimed that Democrats built schools and Republicans built prisons. Wrong. Society creates conditions for schools to fail...

Tamms IL: Artist Shows Supermax Prisons Supercruel- Interview by Gregory Sholette of Laurie Jo Reynolds of the Tamms Ten Year Project

Posted on November 01, 2010
Artist Shows Supermax Prisons Supercruel Interview by Gregory Sholette of Laurie Jo Reynolds of the Tamms Ten Year Project Posted: October 31, 2010 For slides of the Project go to: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/gregory-sholette/artist-shows-supermax-pri_1_b_776761...

Hawai'i: - Puunene prison faces opposition

Posted on October 31, 2010
To read the paper "Smart Justice: How Hawai'i Can Have Few Inmates and Safer Communities" By the Community Alliance on Prisons. July 2010. Go to: http://realcostofprisons.org/materials/Smart_Justice.pdf "The 843-inmate, minimum- and medium-security jail would more than double the capacity of the...

MI: Granholm deserves praise on prisons

Posted on October 31, 2010
Granholm deserves praise on prisons Detroit Free Press By Jeff Gerritt October 29, 2010 A former prosecutor, Gov. Jennifer Granholm would never have guessed -- and will probably never fully embrace -- her only real legacy. But when political pundits....

Prisoners, Employees Exposed to Toxic Electronic Waste at 10 Federal Prisons

Posted on October 28, 2010
Inmates, Employees Exposed to Toxic Electronic Waste at 10 Federal Prisons 2010-10-27 Washington, D.C.? A report http://www.justice.gov/oig/reports/BOP/o1010.pdf) from the Office of the Inspector General revealed inmates and employees at 10 federal prisons were exposed to toxic metals and other hazardous...

ALEC/CCA draft and work to pass Arizona's anti-immigration prison law

Posted on October 28, 2010
Prison Economics Help Drive Ariz. Immigration Law NPR: Laura Sullivan, reporter October 28, 2010 You can listen to the story and there is also a graphic at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130833741 "As soon as Pearce's bill hit the Arizona statehouse floor in January,...

Study Finds Tens of Thousands of Street Stops by N.Y. Police Unjustified

Posted on October 27, 2010
Study Finds Street Stops by N.Y. Police Unjustified By AL BAKER and RAY RIVERA Published: October 26, 2010- NY Times Tens of thousands of times over six years, the police stopped and questioned people on New York City streets without...

NPR Report on Project on Older Prisons

Posted on October 27, 2010
NPR's police and prisons correspondent Laura Sullivan and Jonathan Turley, director of the Project on Older Prisons, discuss the options available to prison ... http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130837434...

...." my jails are empty of prisoners,..."

Posted on October 24, 2010
This quote from Thomas Paine in the Rights of Man was sent to me by Luis Gonzales incarcerated in Corcoran.. "When it shall be said in any country in the world my poor are happy; neither ignorance nor distress is...

"Smoke and Horrors"---An excellent article by Charles Blow. "No one knows all the repercussions of legalizing marijuana, but it is clear that criminalizing it has made it a life-ruining racial weapon"

Posted on October 23, 2010
Smoke and Horrors By CHARLES M. BLOW- NY Times October 22, 2010 Go to this URL and click on the graphic to see the HUGE discrepancies on arrests for marijuana between Blacks and whites. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/23/opinion/23blow.html?ref=opinion Attorney General Eric Holder Jr...

Mothers Behind Bars: A state-by-state report card and analysis of federal policies on conditions of confinement for pregnant and parenting women and the effect on their children

Posted on October 22, 2010
Mothers Behind Bars: A state-by-state report card and analysis of federal policies on conditions of confinement for pregnant and parenting women and the effect on their children National Women's Law Center and the Rebecca Project for Human Rights released the...

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